VIEWPOINT | Fulfilling the promise of their sacrifice

Guest column by Joel Arends

American soldiers on a landing craft head to Utah Beach during D-Day on June 6, 1944. (courtesy of the National World War II Museum)

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, Americans gathered at churches, county courthouses and local diners waiting on first reports of the Allied invasion of France, or as Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenh…